Learning Hypnosis and other forms

[Landy]

Hello,

New here so bere with me.

I am considering completing my Advanced Hypnosis Diploma (think thats right) at a college in manchester. I have not hypnotised anyone, and reada couple of books. I have not studied Eriksonian ways or any other methods like that although I have read a few scripts.

I would REALLY like to make a career out of hypnosis. I would prefer hypnotherapy rather then stage hypnosis.

As I am only human, I am looking to progressing a career in Hypnosis at the minimum of expense.
It would cost me £1600 for the year long course to get my diploma, thats here in Manchester (UK).

I have been on contact with them, and I think I can afford it after some initial saving.

Are there any tips that you people can give me. I have been in contact with a couple of hypnotherapists via email from their websites. One basically said there isn't too much money in it, but she find it rewarding, the other basically said they don't know how to help me.

I am after ANY tips you can give me, should I go for this course or should I try my hand at reading more books and trying things out on people I know?

Thanks

P.S if you haven't already guessed I live in the United Kingdom, at the moment I work full time in an IT role, which I have progressed all my life as its what I know. But I am bored of this and I would like to rekindle my interest in hypnosis.

[Don]

Getting a degree in hypnotherapy (i.e., training and, let us assume, experience) is only half of the equation. Let's say that you go through your training and become the very best hypnotherapist the universe has ever seen.

Then what?

If nobody knows who you are you will have no clients to help. You will then have a choice: either work for someone else, or work for yourself.

If you work for someone else, where is the clinic you will work? Do you have any place in mind? Do they get lots of clients? Will they even consider taking you on?

If you work for yourself, well, how do you do that? The answer is that beside getting a degree in hypnotherapy, you also need to study business and marketing.

As with any self-employment business, you don't merely do the work, you are married to it. You have to market, market, market. You will have to do hours of paperwork.

If you can combine marketing knowledge with hypnotherapy training and experience, you can be very successful.

[TeeJay]

Asking for help in this manner, is rather like jumping into the pool at the deep end, and hoping that an experienced lifeguard is handy to save you......
It would of course be much better if you first leaned to swim, or in this case, studied more than you have to date. It would also make sense in order to be certain that what you propose to do is not being done out of bordom for your present job only, but can be considered an exciting transformation....
Are you an outgoing person, who relates well to others?
Do you have any experience at running your own business?
Do you have the imagination to help others solve their problems, when they have no idea how to help themselves?
So many questions require to be answered before anyone can offer judgement on the likelyhood of you succeeding, yet we know nothing about you.....
You won;t be happy unless you try this, so I suggest you read a few more books, make a decission then, and go for it. Nothing wrong with failing, at least you can be content that you made the attempt, rather than live with the wonder of what might have been if you had just tried it. Terry

[TaffyE]

Landy,

Go for it.
Even if you don't make a career out of it, you will have the satisfaction of having given yourself the opportunity to do something worthwhile, possibly as a part time activity.
While you are doing the course, you could also be looking at the other things that Don has mentioned - killing several birds with one stone so to speak.

[Landy]

Thanks for the replies.

I understan that you can't really give too much guidance without knowing me.

To answer those question would be a positive to all of them. I have always managed to bond well with other, I can work out ways to fix things without using the obvious way and I am looking at the possability of being a hypnotherapist as being something exciting and skillful.

I didn't complete my entire college course so I didn't get wonderful grades, but I also feel that hypnotherapy is an area in which I can become good and build my skills and be looked upon as someone that can help others, like a doctor without having to go through all those years of med school.

Has anyone here taken the hypnosis diploma? If so, whats it like? I have spoken with and emailed the principle at the college, and he tells e that there is no exam as such, but there are papers to submit all through the course.

I think if I was paying for this course, I would be more committed then with all the other teaching I have had that sometimes fell on deaf ears.

Are there any books that you can recommend?

My current reading has been (not including the ebooks I downloaded)

"hypnosis for begginers" by william hewit (I haven't tried any of the tests on anybody, I am kind of, I don't know, scared maybe?)
"Change your life in 7 days" by Paul McKenna (this is more of a self help book, but its good)
"Little books of Body Language" Dk books or something (its a small pocket book, but I was interested in what it would say).

The ebooks I have read seem to mostly be for stage hypnotists.

Thanks

[skip]

There have been numerous requests for book recommendations.

Try using the search engine to find the responses.

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[j0hnny#]

Tranceformations by Bandler and Grinder is a blinder though - but out of print... save you the trouble - costs a fortune second hand - but probably worth it... though with a little ingenuity it might not cost you too much.... Merlin (who posts on this board a lot) also has a good list of books you could read - check her out... plus she has a very sexy eyes :D :o heh, heh.... or I think so anyway

[Don]

Thanks for the replies.

I think if I was paying for this course, I would be more committed then with all the other teaching I have had that sometimes fell on deaf ears.

Thanks

Believe it or not, you have stated here one of the important aspects of hypnotherapy. I hope you don't forget it!

One of the difficulties new hypnotherapists have is they think, "I'm new, I don't have a lot of experience, so in order to get lots of clients, I need to charge less." Often they charge a great deal less.

A client comes in without having much of a financial investment in themselves and the hypnotherapy, and as a result, the hypnotherapy fails!

I actually had an instructor say that the main reason people fail to stop smoking after one hypnotherapy session, assuming the hypnotherapists knows what he or she is doing, is that the charge was not high enough.

You may think that I am kidding, but I am not. When you begin a practice, be secure and confident and charge what you ARE worth--not what you think you're worth.

As another instructor of mine said, you don't need more clients, you need clients who are motivated to succeed. Charging appropriately will help your clients succeed.

Concerning books: there are two basic trends today. Classic hypnotherapy (a good example is Hypnotherapy by Elman), and Ericksonian hypnotherapy (which has so many books available that I hesitate to list one only here)

[Unregistered]

Hi Landy ,
If you wish to study a course that will give you a very good grounding in Hypnotherapy for minimum outlay I can give you a good recommendation, it would also give you a Diploma recognised by two of the main Hypnotheraoy Organistaions. e-mail me for details hkwiles@tiscali.co.uk

I have studied it and passed the exam.

Howard